Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:43:15 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA install report, minor problems. Message-ID: <Mutt.19970109214315.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970109020434.23116I-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>; from Jaye Mathisen on Jan 9, 1997 02:08:54 -0800 References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970109020434.23116I-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Jaye Mathisen wrote: > 1) Configuring local time zone results in a "copied" message after > copying the file which seems a little redundant give that you just > selected what you wanted to do, it asked to confirm it, and then tells you > that it did it. Time consuming. Remember that tzsetup is a standalone program normally. The `copied' message is to make it clear that /etc/localtime is indeed a separate copy now, so e.g. it won't be updated next time your /usr/share files are renewed. This is the default. The opposite is to create a symlink into /usr/share/zoneinfo/. tzsetup will do this if the existing /etc/localtime happened to be a symlink already, and will announce it then. > 2) The box I was installing on had BSD/OS installed on it. For whatever BSD/OS uses a totally `weird' bootstrap if used in dedicated mode (withouth an fdisk table). This is something like our `dangerously dedicated' mode, and BSDi should probably warn about its dangers as well. You just felt it... > I tried everything I could think of. fdisk shows totally bizarre > numbers for the partition table, and the only way I could get the damn > thing to install properly was to low-level format the disk from my Adaptec > controller. No. I think a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0 count=100 should have done it as well. (Substitute the actual device for rsd0 if BSD/OS has a different one, i don't know.) The same procedure is needed to reuse a `dangerously dedicated' FreeBSD disk e.g. for a MicroSoft system. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Mutt.19970109214315.j>